: ative Khrushchev on art, Communism... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev recently addressed o meeting OfpPar- ty and government leaders with ar: tists and writers on the theme “Art and the Battle for Communism.” Be- low, we reprint excerpts from are Port of this meeting by PETER TEMPEST. LL the Communist Party’s ideological weapons, including literature and the arts, must be brought into fighting trim, in the battle for communism, Khrushchev said. The Central Committee consid- ered that Soviet literature and arts were making ‘“‘sucessful pro- ress and in the main fulfilling their tasks well,’’ but there had Soviet been some ‘‘considerable short- comings’’ and in a number of Cases there were errors that Could not be tolerated. The party and the people con- tinually had the work of the cre- intelligentsia in view be Cause ‘‘we live at a time when literature and the arts are an in- Separable part of the life and interests of the whole people.”’ * * * Some artists, he said, ‘‘judged reality only by the smells from lavatories, depict people in delib- erately ugly forms, daub their Paintings with gloomy colors.” He went on to criticize those who Saw only the bad in the period td Ilya Ehrenburg, who viewed the entire Soviet period ‘‘as an ob- server on the sidelines,’ depicted everything in his autobiography in gloomy tones, although he him- self was not persecuted. But an- other writer — Galina Serebrya- kova—who had been imprisoned many years, had retained’ her: cheerfulness of spirit. Scepticism, pessimism, _ nihil- ism were alien to Soviet people. “As one who took part in the events of those years, I can say from my own experience that they NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV were happy, joyful years of strug- gle and victory, of the triumph of communist ideas.”’ It was not true that nobody had resisted Stalin’s caprices. Ukrain- ian Bolsheviks had prevented the danger of a ‘‘trial of Ukrainian nationalists’ after the war and novelist Sholokhov in 1933, had protested to Stalin about-resort to “torture, beatings and outrages’”’ against collective farmers. Khrushchev said the Communist Party leaders knew of the ar- ~ rests of people in that period but of the personality cult. a Hungary’s Sopi- ane Ballet Com- pany is current- ly performing in .London, Eng. Photo shows (left to right) Bela Szilagyi, Hungarian Am- bassador to Bri- tain, Dame Mar- got Fonteyn, Adel Orosz and _ her partner Vik- tor Rona at a party for baliet personalities. fe they “ believed the arrests were carried out against anti-revolu- tionary conspirators and not “against honest and devoted peo- ple to our cause.’’ It was only after Stalin’s death and the un- masking of Beria — “‘that arch agent of the imperialists’? — that Stalin’s abuses of power became known. In his bid for power Beria had tried to disrupt party work, and together with Malenkov had pro- posed that the German Democra- tic Republic should abandon plans to build a socialist state. * * * The Soviet leader added: We consider now that Stalin was de- voted to Communism. He was a Marxist and this cannot and should not be denied. His guilt is that he committed gross mis- takes of a theoretical and political nature. He violated Leninist prin- ciples of state and party leader- ship and abused the power en- trusted to him by the party and- the people. “When they buried Stalin many people, including myself, had tears in their eyes. They were sincere tears. Although we knew some of Stalin’s shortcomings, we believed in him,” Khrushchev said, adding: ‘In the last years of his life, Stalin was a very sick man. He was suffering from suspi- cion and the mania of -persecu- tion.” On visits of Soviet writers abroad, Khrushchev said that the recent visit to France of Victor Nekrassov, Konstantin Paustov- sky and poet Andrei Vosnesensky “left an unpleasant impression,” and in America novelist Valentin Katayev had been “uncircum- spect in his remarks.”’ Visiting West Germany and France recently, Yevgeni Yevtu- shenko had “born himself worth- - ily”’ but had told a-French news- , Paper that his poem ‘‘Babi Yar’’ had been criticized by ‘‘dogma- tists’’. “Yet everyone knows it was Communists who criticized the poem,” pointed out Khrushchev. “How. could he forget this and not draw conclusions for himself? World Marxist Review Three leading Soviet scien- tists discuss cybernetics and socialism in the current April edition of World Marxist Re- view. Their views of this new trend in science dealing with control and communication in machines, living organisms and social life is part of a sti- mulating discussion of the role of science in modern so- ciety. * cd * Among other features are two articles having direct ap- ‘plicability to Canadian prob- lems, One deals with everyday life and problems of Com- munist Party clubs in France — Party Policy and the Par- ty Branch” by G. Marchais. Another— “Some Thoughts on Propaganda” by N. Freed and K. Oesterling — covers the need for new methods of arguing for socialism and ex- posing capitalism. Crook in Newsday, Long Island Wake up the world How They Sold Canada To The U.S.A. by Andrew Lam- Orie. Price: 65 cents. é © you want to quit being a Canadian, and_ live the Test of your life as a citizen Of the United States? Do you think the time has come for Us to hand our country to the US.A2 ~~ WORTH __READING Historical Materialism, by &aurice Cornforth. Volume Il. Price $2.10. This book defines the prin-~ “pal concepts in terms of Which Marxism understands Social development — the Mode ‘of production, exploita- tion, classes, social-economic formations. It summarises the basic !aw pt development of society dis- COvered by Marx and outlines the Marxist theory of Social- 'sm and. Communism. ee C.F Do you want to These two questions are sharply posed in a new book- let entitled How They Sold Our Canada to The U.S.A. by Andrew Lamorie, published by Northern Book House in April 1963. While the facts of US. domination have been pub- lished many times by radical, liberal and conservative writ- ers, that does not detract from the value of this popular tract designated to arouse Cana- dians into action against U.S. control. * * * The Anatomy of Big Busi- ness by L. C. and F. W. Park is a more detailed examina- tion of the two questions pos- ed by Lamorie. The Parks book is also, in the opinion of your reviewer, one that is more likely to last as a stand- ee trade unionists and serious students of Canadian affairs. The main value of the Lamorie booklet lies in its popular style and its brevity (98 pages). Lamorie points out that up to the end of World War One, Great Britain owned Canada. reference for. political. quit being a Canadian? Forty-one years later, the US. owned 20 billion dollars worth of Canada and was tak- ing half the profits made in our country. The author fur- ther claims that this 20 bil- lion dollars is a “book value” and that the real value is closer to 50 billion. Referring to the imbalance of trade between Canada and the U.S., he points out that between 1947 and 1957, the U.S. bought 20 billion dollars worth of goods from us and sold us 27 billion dollars worth of-their goods. During that same period, U.S. invest- ments in Canada increased by approximately the balance in favor of the U.S., that is, by seven billion dollars. * * * According to the author, in such expanding, super-profit- able fields as petroleum, gas, auto, mining, smelting, mach- inery, electrical equipment and synthetic chemicals, U-S.- ° owned corporations now pro- duce between 60 to 100 per- cent of Canada’s output. “The fact that wages for comparable jobs are higher in the U.S. than in Canada is well known, but Lamorie points out another and more striking fact. In 1958, each person in the U.S. bought $28 worth of foreign manufactur- ed goods (on an average). Each Briton bought $48 worth. But each Canadian bought $273 worth. In 1961, each person in the U.S. bought $16 worth of Canadian goods, while each Canadian bought $207 worth of U.S. goods. “To put the comparison crudely: we chop down the trees and the Am- ericans print best-selling books out of them; we dig iron and nickel and the Am- ericans manufacture expens- ive stainless steel equipment out of these metals.” In these words the writer illustrates how we supply raw materials ‘to the U.S. and in return they sell us fully manufactured goods. The export of thousands of our best educated and most talented Canadians to the U.S. every year is sharply dealt with; also the ‘‘tidal- wave of American cultural ac- tivity.” * Hes & The solution offered by La- morie is very simple. Firstly, create a real defence for Can ada by declaring its neutral- ity and cut the annual defence budget by $1.5 billion. Sec- ondly, tax U.S. investors on a fair and equitable basis, thus raising another $1.4 bil- lion. Thirdly, use the new source of money supply for BOOKS industrial development. Four- thly, buy back U.S. holdings in Canada through a “system- atic, compulsory and entirely legal program of liquidating American investment.” 2 The author deserves credit because he consciously writes for the man on the street. But, in the opinion of this review- er, he sometimes carries sim- plicity to the point of over- simplification. In the balance, however, however, the booklet should contribute to the growing de- bate on the economic and pol- itical domination of our coun- try by the United States of America. see =< <«.@JACK,PHILLIBS «5 April 26, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9.